
![]() Is there anything that has a shorter shelf life than a topical sketch that isn't selected? I mean besides that Skittle you found in the sofa cushion. It's rough. You pull together a decent take on today's headlines only to learn they didn't pick your sketch to be in this week's show. Then what? Submit it around to the hundreds of comedy troupes that are looking for sketches from strangers? Or just send them to the reboot of MAD-TV...that's still on the air, right? Or, you just start posting on your own blog because you never know (actually you do, but you do it anyway). Then there's this bit. With the way they keep releasing Star Wars movies, maybe it could be topical again. Or evergreen. With TV and film all on demand, movie and TV parodies can keep coming in any time. 2/6/18
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I've been looking back on my adventure in Hollywood, culling pages from my journal... ![]() My next journal entry is one of two made in in September. And I'm blue here. It turns out I did send Herb Sargent the material after the whole WGAE dinner kerfuffle. He doesn't know if he got it (He gets lots of mail, doncha know). He did recall talking to the other guy, Jay, but wouldn't give me an inch or the slightest acknowledgment. Money woes. Finishing "Closed Set" but didn't know what to do with it next. My rejection from MAD magazine finally made its way back to me after a year. I was just deeply lamenting my fate; my "break" was a non-repeatable fluke. I hadn't built off of it. Kevin Brown was now off on his own. "Bleakness envelopes me" (C'mon, the kid can write!). ![]() Is there anything that has a shorter shelf life than a topical sketch that isn't selected? I mean besides that jug of milk in the front of the row at the store. It's rough. You pull together a decent take on today's headlines only to learn they didn't pick your sketch to be in this week's show. Then what? Submit it around to the hundreds of comedy troupes that are looking for sketches from strangers? Or just fax them to SNL. That's right, fax. They wouldn't expect that. Or, you just start posting on your own blog because you never know (actually you do, but you do it anyway). So, here's the latest edition of Skit Happens. Oscar season 2018. The comedy troupe is doing an Oscare-themed show. "The Shape of Water" is nominated for everything. The first "monster" movie to be in the running in decades. I'm sure that went over well over at the Dark Universe... Mad Monster Oscar Party2/20/18
![]() Is there anything that has a shorter shelf life than a topical sketch that isn't selected? I mean beside gas station sushi. It's rough. You pull together a decent take on today's headlines only to learn they didn't pick your sketch to be in this week's show. Then what? Submit it around to the hundreds of comedy troupes that are looking for sketches from strangers? Or just fax them to SNL. That's right, fax. They wouldn't expect that. Or, you just start posting on your own blog because you never know (actually you do, but you do it anyway). So, here's the premiere of something I'm going to call Skit Happens. There was another school shooting, only this time the students didn't just go away, the starting pushing back. Once that happened, certain political groups starting getting antsy, then nasty. They claimed the student victims weren't really students or victims. So, I wrote up a sketch called the: 35th Annual Crisis Actors Guild Awards Red Carpet Pre-Show3/13/18
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